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... the Diego Rivera "Detroit Industry" frescoes painted on the walls of the Rivera Court. More on that later. Catching the bus from downtownDetroit to the DIA was an experience in itself. There was a man sitting opposite me talking to someone in the ...

... three and a half hour drive takes you to the city of Detroit. There you'll find a Twilight Zone, scary city, without rival. Cruising downtownDetroit at 10:00 a.m. reminds you of the movie Vanilla Sky - the part where Tom Cruise jumps in his car to go to ...

... him as Tim the Tool Man doing pretty commercials. Anyway, thought of him.
Pretty easy drive...I-55, I-80, I-94, I-96 to downtownDetroit. We don't often think of the Interstate Highway system in the US. But many of us remember when it was being ...

... amp; Baltimore (or is it Milwaukee?) just south of Grand Blvd and the former General Motors World Headquarters (now located downtown in the former Ford/Renaissance Center building).
We drove over to the Woodbridge neighborhood west of the Wayne State ...

... Café and motor out to Oak Park to meet Peter Werbe at WRIF-FM. Werbe is one of a tiny handful of left-wing broadcasters in the UnitedStates and he's held down a talk show on local FM giant rocker WRIF for probably 30 years now. He's also the de facto ...

... a suite. Lovely day at Comerica Park, good game, and the Tigers completed a sweep of STL (poor Monte, the Cards fan). DowntownDetroit is slowly but surely looking better and better.
Mostly visits and more visits and eating and more eating. I've eaten ...

... edge. They were frozen over but it would be lovely in summer! Tarun showed us around Royal Oak, Ferndale, Eastern Market and DowntownDetroit. Later we met Don at Lafayette Coney Island for some world famous Coney dogs and chilli cheese fries. Much to ...

... , I'm going to do it. So I just concentrate on myself."
To that end, Sinclair splits his time between the UnitedStates and Europe, where he travels around, performing his poetry with a procession of regional bands dubbed the Blues Scholars ...

... . Then it was a swift trip on I-75 60 miles north to my home town of Flint and my gig with Glowb at Churchill's Pub downtown, right across Saginaw Street and the Flint River from where I used to hear and see all the traveling R&B revues at the IMA ...

... thought was so much better than the #1 ranked National Geographic market in Toronto. We then found our way through river town and downtown. After a good 15km walking around all day we were pretty hungry and we wanted to stay local, we found an Irish pub ...